My sister-in-law, Lauren, while driving past it, texted a photo of the Indianapolis home that we sold 20 years ago when I took a job in Massachusetts. By any measure, it is a beautiful house but looking back now it is hard to imagine something further from the style of the home we chose to build for ourselves. A 7,400 square foot English Tutor with a magnificent park-like backyard located across the street from the Governor’s mansion in a prestigious historic neighborhood, it recently sold for $1.75M. We purchased it for $850K and sold it for $1.25M eight years later after a good bit of renovation work, much of which I did and where I honed many of the skills I am using today for the new house. It proved to be a good investment, but more importantly, a place where the kids made some very fond childhood memories. I grabbed these images from Zillow.

This final photo is one I took of my office when we lived there. It is now my preferred virtual background for Zoom calls.